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Prints and Drawings
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
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Meyer, Jeremiah, 1735–1789
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Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713–1770
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Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
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Chaulay, Sebastian
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Cotes, Francis, 1726–1770
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Taverner, William, 1703–1772
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1764
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1795
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1776
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1788
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1753
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1784
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1758
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1756
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1712
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1734
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1728
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1766
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1769
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1724
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1737
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1739
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1710
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1675
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Drawings & Watercolors
5
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
2
Archives & Manuscripts
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male
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unknown
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18th century
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laid paper
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watercolor
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black ink
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brown ink
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graphite
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gray wash
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gouache
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ivory
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brown wash
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drawing
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landscape
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portrait
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landscape
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portrait
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trees
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Grand Tour
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hills
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mountains
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Chaulay, Sebastian.
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Military art and science -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- France.
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Tactics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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aerial view
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architectural subject
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buildings
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bushes
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clouds
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geology
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ladder
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Italy
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Campania
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Eolie, Isole
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Europe
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France
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Messina
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Napoli
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Piazza del Popolo
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Rome
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Sicily
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Stromboli, Isola
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Tyrrhenian Sea
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Vesuvius
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Chaulay, Sebastian
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Madonna
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Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
1
Exhibition History
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
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The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)
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A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
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Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)
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The Grand Tour (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1998-01-10 - 1998-04-10)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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French
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William Taverner, 1703–1772
Rural Landscape
between 1750 and 1755
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Jeremiah Meyer, 1735–1789
Portrait of a Lady
undated
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Jeremiah Meyer, 1735–1789
Portrait of an Unknown Lady
undated
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Jeremiah Meyer, 1735–1789
Portrait of a Young Man
undated
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Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Stromboli
1750
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Attributed to Francis Cotes, 1726–1770
An Artist Sketching, possibly Paul Sandby
ca. 1755
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Tree and Distant Hills
between 1750 and 1755
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
River and Mountain, with Ruins
between 1750 and 1759
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Landscape with Mountain and Lake
1750s
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Sir William Chambers, 1723–1796
Drawing from the Madonna del Popolo, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
between 1750 and 1755
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Chaulay, Sebastian
Manoeuvres nouvelles
mid-18th century